A POLICE inspector who was part of a security team enforcing the coronavirus curfew in Auchi, Edo State has been killed by a mob.The team was attacked
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“Consequently, the Commissioner of Police, Edo State Command, Lawan Jimeta, has ordered full-scale investigation into the gruesome murder of the Police Inspector and he solicits for the assistance of the sister security agencies, vigilance group and hunters in the area in arresting the perpetrators. Chairman of the branch, Dr Murtala Isa Umar, in a statement listed the affected workers as five nurses, three technicians, one medical information officer, one billing officer and one attendant.Twenty-two JOHESU members who had earlier tested positive for COVID-19 are currently in isolation centres.The story is similar at the University Teaching Hospital, Ibadan, where a worker also tested positive to the deadly virus.
“Out of these, six patients were managed as in-patients in the isolation unit or other locations in the Hospital, two of which were discharged after being declared free from the virus from results of investigations done. Health Commissioner Dominic Ukpong told reporters in Uyo on Friday. He said the confirmation followed the outcome of five of the 31 samples that were sent to the National Centre for Disease Control by the State COVID-19 Management Committee.
“The case sneaked into the State from Kano State and the neighbours immediately alerted our COVID-19 team.
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